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Sunday, September 17, 2017 - 2016 Moulin de Gassac Guilhem (France, Languedoc Roussillon, Languedoc, Vin de Pays de l'Hérault)

$11/750. 50 percent Syrah/Carignane. $11/750 ml, 12 pabv, Greenfire Bistro, Tipp City, MI (Art Chin). Imported by Vanguard Vines, Columbus, OH. Coravin through new Coravin screw-cap replacement into le Taster. Very pale greenish color. Slightly ashy, almost Chablis-like, upon opening. Cream and alpine strawberries and honey, with pleasant overtones (very slight) of asphalt and straw or chestnut. Light brothy flavor contrasts with a more caressing mouthfeel, and juicy acids for contrast are not lacking. As it warms the sap rises and some skin tang becomes more apparent and perhaps important. 89-90/100; drink now through 2020? Excellent value. Perhaps the wine has structure for more aging than this; I have no experience by which to judge it.

Of course this is the product of the negociant arm of the domaine that makes the important Mas de Gassac Daumas, a brilliant Emile Peynaud success of that era, that I've followed on and off since the 1980s.

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